US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland on November 5, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

For nine months, congressional Republicans have largely stood idly by as President Donald Trump has gone to great lengths to try to expand the power of the presidency, demolish norms and disregard laws .

But increasingly, the implications of those power grabs are starting to come into focus – and specifically, what they might mean when the shoe is on the other foot the next time Democrats are in charge.

And Republicans seem to be starting to reckon with that.

Perhaps most striking was a scene Wednesday at the Supreme Court, during oral arguments in a challenge to Trump’s worldwide tariffs .

The day prior, a CNBC host had asked Treasury Secretary

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